skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 FE tablet, and I can't figure any use case where I may use more power.

I agree that iPad has more interesting software than android for use cases like video or music editing, but I don't do those on a tablet anyway.

I just can't imagine anyone updating their ipad M2 for this except a tiny niche that really wants that more power.
Apples devices are in the field longer than most OEMs, especially mobile devices you realize?

They don’t just trash it when you trade it, they resell as used.
I understand self-censorship, white lies, and similar social constructs are crucial so that people can get along at all, but sometimes it's important to be able to ruffle some feathers without fear of repercussions, for the benefit of the whole organisation. The Emperor's New Clothes and all that.

That ability goes out the window once all communication is written down verbatim because now people can point fingers and have a grudge with each others for years.

Now, that affair with the receptionist is really HR's problem, and it's just great for one's prospects at the company to inconsiderately flame on the boss' way of doing things (not!). But somehow it should be possible to criticize things without having to join management at the golf club or at pub crawl...
Animations: Bringing the Host Passport to Life on iOS
Sadly, it's probably cheaper or a similar cost to tear down the office buildings and just build new residential housing.
Wait can this be covered by just giving the bedroom two doors? That seems pretty straightforward...?
This method, using a bare git repo, is really an elegant, efficient, and easy way to manage one's dotfiles.

In the end, how you do it is personal pref. I liken it to editor wars, vim vs emacs, etc. What works for me, may not work for you.

PS: these are my dotfiles (link is my repo), and I've used this method for some 5 plus yrs now and it works well for me. I really like how easy it is to spool up a new linux instance and have my config ready to go in mere seconds.

I've not used branches yet, for different OS'en, so my zshrc and bashrc have conditional checks for OS. I will be looking at using branches in the future since it does sound like it would make shell rc files cleaner.
I've built a TUI for terraform:

https://github.com/leg100/pug

It's built using Go and the bubbletea library. It's been a breath of fresh air compared to building a web app, simpler and faster to develop and test. And of course far more responsive than a web app could ever be.
Not mentioned in the article, but good to know: Lil is the scripting language of Decker, which itself is a fantastic reincarnation of Hypercard with 1-bit graphics.

https://www.beyondloom.com/decker/index.html
You haven't even addressed whether or not:

--> Not providing feedback after engineers invest their time into your interview process (such as via take home project or tests) is a Policy of your company <--

##########

Verdict: I am hereby revoking your ability to freely post on Hacker New's monthly "Who is hiring" for the foreseeable future.

If you're still hiring for those roles next month, I'll be here next month too to tell people to beware of your time wasting shenanigans.

Good luck.

The chickens have come home to roost.

Let this be a warning to all hiring teams: Treat engineers with dignity and respect. You're in our community, and on our platform: the internet.

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Partially because Kvark, who has a long history in graphics programming, was enthusiastic about it, and has similar values of simplicity and effectiveness to our own. Mainly because our renderer is simple enough that we would have preferred to use Vulkan APIs directly, rather than going through wgpu. Blade is a thinner abstraction than wgpu, it's a bit more ergonomic than wgpu-hal, and it already supports our long term platform goals (Linux, Windows, and the web though via WebGL). So far, it's been running flawlessly, and it's been everything else that's the hard part!
I challenge you to try to get it working and train a basic LLM yourself on multiple AMD gpus. It is far worse than the situation with Nvidia GPUs/Drivers and Linux circa the mid 2010s. Which is saying a lot...

But don't take my word for it. Geohot, maybe one of the best hackers of our generation can't even it working: https://wccftech.com/tinycorp-ditches-amd-tinybox-ai-package...

It IS trash and it's clearly NOT mature. These are not mutually exclusive. There have been attempts to get AMD to open source their firmware to let people work on it since they themselves seem disinterested in doing so. Until then AMD is not a real choice for serious ML work.
I didn’t know what to expect. I thought they may license it to other companies under particular clauses or some such.
Maybe, but it's a twenty minute subway ride to the nearest hackerspace.
Here's my take on it: the interview is testing your ability to "show" that you absorbed the content and process of your 4th year data-structures and algorithms classes. The whiteboard process is all about showing them that you can regurgitate what those courses taught you, likely in the manner that the prof taught you. You're essentially playing "professor" for them in front of a "class", for a short period of time. Not showing them that you can write code. The code you write on the whiteboard will look nothing like anything you'll ever write at Google.

I think one way to do well in that interview, is to pretend you're the professor and they're a student, and you're working through course material.

In the end, it's just showing them that you passed the socio-cultural hurdles they think are necessary, even if they no longer explicitly check GPAs and which school you came from at interview time.

Why?

Google is more often than not the first job these employees have after school, and many stay there almost forever after. A large percentage are masters or PhDs.

Google is founded by two Stanford grads, both children of academics, who never worked in the industry outside of Google.

Academia is hence the reference point against which Google measures things.

Google is structured in many ways just like a university. Publish or perish (Design docs, PRDs). Thesis committees (perf "calibration" committee, interview committees, etc) and review (intense code review). Even down to the physical "campus" structure. On site cafeterias, even housing/dorms (GSuites, etc)

It's something that was very foreign to me having worked in the industry for a decade before, without a degree.
Yeah it is quite surprising in hindsight. I saw a GH issue where they talk about how crawling is not a feature they want to support etc. but it went recursive on users somehow. Your explanation sounds plausible.
Related Show HN: A semantic search engine for HN [0] (231 points, 5 days ago, 71 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238509
Blog post is now live: https://jnnnthnn.com/building-hacker-search.html
> Yeah this sounds false.

I have quite a few teacher friends in Georgia and NYC, and I can tell you that this is the case for them. Organizations that represent teachers have said so themselves. Hard evidence is best though. Do you have numbers to dismiss their claims?
My concern for the workers is that the bridge traps the particulate matter from the stones and the VOCs from the asphalt. Like working in a mine.
For people who are accustomed to cold brew (we always have cold brew in the fridge and grounds steeping) there's a very large difference in flavor and profile using the same beans. This also translates when it's heated, although I will say I don't do that often because I enjoy it cold more than hot.

I'd disagree though that it's "extreme". There are local chains in my area (Midwest - US) that offer a variety of hot cold brew drinks that are quite popular offerings. I was pleasantly surprised when I ran across this more than a year ago. But I still do run into a number of coffee shops where baristas fail to understand the difference between cold brew and an iced coffee. There's really no comparison when you're explicitly looking for cold brew. It's also often hard to find available in the winter months in my region. Not sure why, but to me that's akin to pausing ice cream sales because there's snow on the ground. Just because it's a cold drink doesn't mean I don't drink it during cold weather.
Take a closer look at how much homework children have, and how much assigned, mandatory reading children have.

I went to a private "college prep" high school, and the amount of assigned, mandatory reading was insane. I spent so much time reading assigned novels that I just didn't have time to read for pleasure. (And why read for pleasure if I already spent 30+ minutes reading a boring / awful novel as part of my homework?)

Once I was out of college, I rediscovered reading.
Self help books are especially bad for this. I was reading Dopamine Nation and the author describes their office:

> My office is ten by fourteen feet, with two windows, a desk with a computer, a sideboard covered with books, and a low table between the chairs. The desk, the sideboard, and the low table are all made of matching reddish-brown wood. The desk is a hand-me-down from my former department chair. It’s cracked down the middle on the inside, where no one else can see it, an apt metaphor for the work I do.

> On top of the desk are ten separate piles of paper, perfectly aligned, like an accordion. I am told this gives the appearance of organized efficiency.
This was an interesting observation:

> What I do know, however, is that for every 1-hour interview where I evaluated if someone knew their data structures, I could have just taught them.

I don't really hear much about training. I doubt it's because we don't do it, but maybe it's not an interesting topic for discussion.
Using LLMs to find reasonable subset of algorithms for a problem sounds like a valid use case. Could even get naive implementation and lead to comparing them to pick right one.
Obtaining information through books is like trying to put out a fire by sucking water out through a straw.
The printing press was great but it's a slow and constrained way to get into from the greatest minds. I read voraciously as a child but when I came to university I pretty much stopped reading when the experts were there to teach in real life using all the senses.

If I were a 9 year old today I'd probably pick YouTube over reading. When I built my house I found myself learning way faster watching tradesmen and listening to them on YouTube than having to suck that information through a tiny straw that is reading a book . I find myself truly hating reading now, far too inefficient.
This seems like a perfectly valid tradeoff if it leads to the end of mines, oil rigs and fracking.
They did the installation themselves so the only labor they paid for was roofers to reshingle the roof first. I think that significantly changes the calculus.
Are we rapidly brushing past the question “do we want and need to save downtowns in the first place?”?

I have not really thought that through; at first blush it seems obvious that one would want to save these downtowns. But also some of the best innovations arise out of the creation that follows destruction.

I’m open to clarifying opinions on the matter
Part of me wonders if this whole "ban" was a way to get donation money from Facebook and other social media since its an election year.
https://archive.ph/2024.05.07-080346/https://www.wsj.com/wor...
What's a valid Discord invite for Zed Linux? It seems like the link on the downloads page[0][1] needs to be updated.

[0] https://zed.dev/download

[1] https://discord.com/channels/869392257814519848/120467985020...
Seven years of updates is good, but how difficult is it to get the battery replaced by a trustworthy shop when it starts dying in three years?
We need supply to expand to where there's ready housing available and then people will realize that landlords do exist for a reason; if they didn't commercial landlords wouldn't exist at all. Some major chains like Walmart own the stores they operate in, but others operate on various leases.
> Conventional wisdom is that only certain office buildings can be converted to housing.

If you can buy the building cheap enough, conventional wisdom can be thrown out the window.

I once toured a building that had been converted from an old warehouse to residential. Huge floorplate. They had built the condo units around the edges, created a hallway, and then the inside was divided up into "storage" spaces. Each condo owned the space directly across the hallway. They were very large, and people had transformed them into offices, arcades, workshops, playrooms, theaters, etc. You could do just about anything you wanted with the space, and because it wasn't "living space" you didn't have to worry so much about noise and the property taxes were lower than they otherwise would have been.

You can't sell it for a price that includes that space as "living space" either. Which goes back to the point - if you can buy the building cheap enough, you can make anything work.
My experience from a long time ago was that dorm rooms were never really a place to hang out. My undergrad had rooms off a kitchen/suite area and people did hang out there. But rooms were mostly for sleeping (etc.), studying, reading, etc.
https://www.quora.com/What-does-Im-Jacks-complete-lack-of-su...
China is 'moving at breathtaking speed in space,' Space Force general says
The name itself might be due to Knuth; they were initially known as additive generators in other early literature.
The one being announced on May 20th at Computex? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40288969
I don't have a personal laptop and use iPad Pro instead. I have a work laptop that I only use for work and I never take on vacations with me.

iPad Pro gives me:

- amazing SSH terminal

- ability to download content from streaming services to long-haul flights

- a decent size screen for watching TV in bed (my bedroom has a layout that prevents me from placing TV anywhere)

- a good steam/xcloud client

- when latency is too high for SSH, I have RPi I connect with USB-C to iPad and shows up as Ethernet adapter powered from iPad.

- a few games to play on the iPad itself when away

- I have a thunderbolt dock that my main PC is connected to, I can switch to my iPad. That with Stage Manager gives essentially focus-mode mac.

- nice screen (quality and size) to read things (not books, eInk is king there)

- nice screen to look at recipes while I cook

You might notice that none of these tasks require a powerful CPU, and you will be right. I got iPad Pro because of screen size and thunderbolt. Might switch to the new one because the camera is finally in the right place.

If I could run IntelliJ on iPad, even in remote mode - I wouldn't even think about buying a laptop.
I mean seeing a paperback (or ebook) novella priced at $20+ hurts, even if it's what the publisher needs to charge for the economics make sense.
Possibly, but unlikely IMHO - it looks like the bridge deploys rigid hydraulic outriggers when stationary, and changes to flexible pneumatic tyres when moving.

If the bridge was supported by flexible rubber tyres while heavy trucks were driving over the top of it, it'd probably wobble enough to make everyone involved uncomfortable.
Good is subjective. I've trialed cold brew at home and have been serving it warmed. I prefer my coffee hot. I thought it tasted fine, different but neither better nor worse than hot brew (drip in my case.)

Since it's DIY I have no one to argue with about how to serve. I have stopped making cold brew for the most part because it seems to require more coffee beans than hot brew. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I don't have a "cold brewer" and just add water to grounds in a glass jar with lid and shake when I walk by before filtering it the next day. Neither have I compared the cost of electricity for drip vs. the extra beans for cold so I don't really know which is more cost effective.
I don’t understand building codes. It’s not safe for people to sleep there, but it’s safe to work there for eight to twelve hours a day? Something is off.
Such a short-sighted comment. In 1995, when these mid-50s people were considering making their first home purchase, mortgage rates were around 7.93%, higher than today.

https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/historical-mortgage-rates...
Where Emacs helps you with such homages is if you want the powerful programming environment for doing it, or the rich support for text buffers. (Or if you're doing it for practical use, for people who want to use Emacs.)

But if Emacs isn't a requirement, you might have an easier time doing many TUI things in Python or Rust, with one of their fancy libraries. Emacs can be made to emulate things like cursor-addressing, but the underlying representation, and the features layered upon it, aren't designed for that, and you have to fight them.

(BTW, after seeing the Canon Cat again on HN the other day, and realizing that the pointer buttons on a TrackPoint keyboard are just sitting there, waiting to be Leap keys, I had the thought of implementing that.)
This used to be the case, but suburbia is spreading almost everywhere now. I don't think you are ever more than 100 miles from a Walmart in most of the USA. Unless you are intentionally finding a remote location in Montana or Alaska... The distance in time can be pretty bad though if you are forced to do 35 on a dirt road for 50 of those miles.
Try the Fablehaven series for her.

For the the mid-teens, Mistborn series.
The book has a distribution challenge in that the content is the same for all people. Sort of like how every programming language book has some content about setting up ones environment, building and the basics that make the rest of the book usable for the person of least experience/knowledge.

Just skim past the umpteenth telling of Abraham Wald and the bulleted bombers and get to the meaningful parts. Even Thomas Jefferson condensed the New Testament down to 84 pages. [0]

0. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-thomas-jeffe...
The point is that it is a very near future, a few months away.

Apple is also bragging very hyperbolically that the NPU they introduce right now is faster than all the older NPUs.

So, while what Apple says, "The Most Powerful Neural Engine Ever" is true now, it will be true for only a few months. Apple has done a good job, so as it is normal, at launch their NPU is the fastest. However this does not deserve any special praise, it is just normal, as normal as the fact that the next NPU launched by a competitor will be faster.

Only if the new Apple NPU would have been slower than the older models, that would have been a newsworthy failure. A newsworthy success would have been only if the new M4 would have had at least a triple performance than it has, so that the competitors would have needed more than a year to catch up with it.
Practically speaking your interview would require applicants to apply claimed knowledge to novel context.

A simple method would be to identify interesting problems from recent PRs and ask them to walk you through their approach to discovery and solution. It's a problem they should be familiar with, but in a new shape and with different labels. Let's see what they come up with.
My Dell laptop is much more repairable. I changed the RAM and added second SSD myself.
Ongoing discussion [0] (14 points, 2 hours ago, 14 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40287519
I do actually want the ability to program the CPUs in my car the same way I'm able to buy parts and mods for every mechanical bit in there down to the engine. In fact we have laws about that sort of thing that don't apply to the software.
I've not personally read "Misquoting Jesus", but I've listened to Ehrman on YT a bit. Based on that, and having spoken with a few biblical scholars who have read Ehrman, the general impression I get is that he has a "select is broken"[0] attitude toward the reliability of the Bible.

Much like GCC, and the Linux kernel, and the PostgreSQL query planner, the Bible is a battle-tested historical artifact. There may be a slew of yet-to-be-discovered "edge cases" in its interpretation (and perhaps Ehrman is the man to discover them). But in the main, it's an incredibly reliable witness to history.

So, while I wouldn't want to discourage people from starting their study of Biblical textual criticism with Bart Ehrman, I would definitely discourage them from concluding it with him.

The one who states his case first seems right,
until the other comes and examines him.
Prov. 18:17

[0]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-first-rule-of-programming-...
VMware waves goodbye to AWS middleman as Broadcom takes the reins
90% of the filter is resume formatting!!!? I'm open to hear your experience but that sounds like an arbitrary filter which limits your pool more than it selects for talent
I did not ask "who is buying iPads"; I asked who is buying the iPad Pro, especially now that the Air is available at the 13" size.
This assumes the losses to emigration are higher than the efficiency improvements. I suspect that's not how it works out in practice, but I don't have the data to support this.

It's also reasonable to assume internalizing externalities can drive efficiency improvements everywhere. Would batteries by as efficient and available for installation in TX if CA hadn't subsidized them for a decade prior?
IMHO the `README.md` for instructlab itself does a terrible job of explaining the value of the software. I found the taxonomy `README.md` much more helpful: https://github.com/instructlab/taxonomy/blob/main/README.md
Apple quietly kills the old-school iPad and its headphone jack
Water and sewage drainage is also a big deal. Almost impossible to retrofit for 150 bathrooms, around the buildings, when you originally had 20, around the elevator columns.

Source: I have a friend that ran industrial plumber crews in NYC for 40 years.

We don't like to talk about pee and poop, but they are a really important consideration, in almost any human venture.
OpenAI to launch tool to detect images created by DALL-E 3
Really? Man, I hate to say this, but how long have you been restoring your iPhone and Mac when you replace them? Maybe you are importing a bug with your settings/environment. I've literally never had to restart my hotspot for my Mac in using both for over 10 years, at times as my daily driver for the internet. Has it gotten worse in the last few years? I haven't been using it as much lately, but 2015-2019 that was basically my main way of browsing the web on my Mac. Worked flawlessly the whole time, kinda amazing to be honest.
How are people still so misinformed about Tech salaries?

Are you in the EU? Salaries are lower across the board there for engineers.

In the US for Silicon Valley Type large Tech Companies the starting salary for New Graduate SWE's is 150k USD on the low end.

For a senior engineer at FAANG it can easily get above 500k USD.
Well I should've mentioned I am the ArchiveBox creator haha.

I'm curious because it would save me a lot of work implementing this feature if it's already working somehow!
They claim insolvency? What are you talking about? They went through bankruptcy in 2019-2020. 4 years ago.
Making it so that the 60-100 companies producing the majority of single plastics waste face severe economic sanctions or plastics pollution would resolve half of the total plastics trash waste on the planet on its own and have a chilling effect on the single use plastics industry across the board.

If they stop buying/making single uses plastics, their customers will stop using them. EZ.
The doors need to open into different escape paths, so not the same hallway or front door. The window goes outside.
I don't think less honest covers it and can't believe anything their marketing says after the 3090 claims. Maybe it's true, maybe not. We'll see from the reviews. Well assuming the reviewers weren't paid off with an "evaluation unit".
If you have to go back 20+ years for an example…